Becoming a "Society of the Spectacle": Ghanaian Hiplife Music and Corporate Recolonization

• Published in: Popular music and society Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 187 - 209
• Main Author: Osumare, Halifu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bowling Green Routledge 15.03.2014; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Adaptation; Africa; Artists; Capitalism; Colonialism; Ghana; Ghanaian Music; Globalization; Hip hop; Hip hop music; Modernity; Modernization; Music; Neoliberalism; Popular music; Privatization; Telecommunications; Ghana

Hiplife music in Ghana, West Africa, is explored not merely as an adaptation of hip hop, but as a revision of Ghana's own century-old popular music known globally as highlife; yet it is subject to the same postcolonial, global, and neoliberal corporate "recolonization" to which other...